Note: The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is an autonomous, administrative entity comprising the territory of Gaza (formerly under Egyptian sovereignty) and towns and areas of the West Bank (formerly under Jordan sovereignty), which were occupied by the Israeli Defence Forces in 1967. As provided for in the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements signed on September 13, 1993 in Washington, and upon the Gaza-Jericho (I) Agreement signed on May 4, 1994 in Cairo, the PNA was inaugurated on July 5, 1994 with a five-year transitional status including Palestinian interim self-governing and a phased-out transfer of powers and territories. Negociations on the permanent status, which could end in a Palestinian State, were under under way until October 2000, when the peace process collapsed. On January 3, 2013, following the Novemberg 29, 2012 UN General Assembly resolution recognizing the State of Palestine as a non-member UN observer state, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered all Palestinian embassies to change any official reference to the Palestinian Authority into State of Palestine; this movement was not recognized by Israe. The State of Palestine, proclaimed by PLO on November 15, 1988 in Algiers, remains ineffective but receives wide diplomatic recognition, by 138 of the 193 United Nations member states.

See also the political leadership in Israel and Jordan.